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School Library Journal
Reviewed on July 1, 2015 | Middle to High School
Gr 5–8—Michael (Misha) Gruenbaum lived an untroubled existence in Prague until the Nazis invaded in 1939, and he documents his life between the ages of nine and 15 in this poignant memoir. Misha's family was sent to the ghetto, where new and oppressive rules were imposed nearly every day. There, his father was arrested and later was reported to have died of kidney failure. Along with his mother and his sister, Marietta, Misha was eventually sent to the concentration camp Terezin, where his experiences ran the gamut, from...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2015
With Todd Hasak-Lowy. In this heavily fictionalized memoir, Holocaust survivor Gruenbaum recounts his experience as a young boy living in ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More